Bryan Curtis of The Ringer

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Episode 186 of the Sports Media Podcast features Bryan Curtis, the Editor-At-Large for The Ringer and also the co-host with David Shoemaker of The Press Box podcast. In this podcast, Curtis and Deitsch discuss how news is presented on television versus sports; whether you can do policy-based programming on cable news; the reverberations from Troy Aikman's move to ESPN; how Fox would handle the loss of Joe Buck; the mindset of Al Michaels heading forward; ESPN’s re-set of its relationship with the NFL; how ESPN looks at First Take in 2022 versus five years ago; Amazon’s NFL plans; the future of sports-talk radio; how Bryan sees Tony Romo and why he believes Romo is different depending on the game; writing sports media as a career and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is Richard Dicche and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:13.2	One guest this week. We're going to do two podcasts this week. Maybe we'll start doing that a little bit to see if you guys like that.
0:20.0	Break up the interviews.
0:22.3	Today, I really enjoyed this conversation.
0:25.2	We have never done this before.
0:27.1	Brian Curtis is an editor at large at the Ringer.
0:30.9	He is the co-host of the Press Box podcast with David Shoemaker.
0:35.6	If you read sports media, you probably are familiar with the name.
0:38.7	He's been doing, you know, great work from Grantland to The Daily Beast. He was at play,
0:44.2	which was pretty revolutionary at the time, the New York Times Sports magazine. And Brian and I went
0:49.9	about 50 minutes on all sorts of different topics, including looking at sort of how news is presented
0:59.9	versus sports. And are those two sort of more similar than ever before? We obviously had a
1:07.0	long conversation about all the moves in the NFL broadcasting, Troy Aikman,
1:11.5	obviously heading to ESPN, Joe Buck potentially leaving Fox, Kirk Herb Street and Amazon and like,
1:16.3	what all that means. Uh, that was, you know, probably went 20 minutes on that. That was a lot of fun.
1:21.6	Talked about Tony Romo, who Brian has written a lot about and very interestingly talked about
1:27.2	where sports radio is in
1:29.1	2022 and where it might be heading forward and all sorts of sports media related topics.
1:37.1	So first time Brian and I have ever done a podcast. He never came on my Sports Illustrated.
1:41.9	That's no reason for that.
1:46.1	Then I should have asked them. But finally, like the famous diner scene in heat, we have finally met.
1:50.1	So Brian Curtis coming up for 50 minutes or so on the sports media.
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